Combined electric fan and electrolier



(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Smet 1 E. H. BENNETT, Jr. COMBINED ELECTRIC EAN ANDELECTROLIER.

No. 585,250. Patent-ed June 29, 1897.

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E. H. BENNETT, Jr. COMBINED ELECTRIC EAN AND ELECTECLIEE.

No. 585,259. Patented June 29,1897.

l Il s i UNITED STATES` PATENT OEEIcE.

EDXVIN H. BENNETT, JR., OF BAYONNE, NEV JERSEY.

COMBINED ELECTRIC FAN AND ELECTROLIER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 585,250, dated J une29, 1897.

Application filed June 14, 1893. Serial No, 477,612. (No model.)

,To all whom, t may concern/z Beit known that I, EDWIN H. BENNETT, J r.,a citizen of the United States, residing at Bayonne, in the county ofHudson and State of New Jersey, have invented a certain new and usefulCombined Electric Fan and Electrolier, oi which the following is aspecification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

My invention has for its object to provide a combined electric fan andelectrolier, the latter being supported from some stationary part of theelectric fan. To this end I attach to a suitable part of the fan or anadjunct thereof a support which sustains any desired number ofincandescent lamps. This support or lamp-holder is preferably arrangedbelow the wings or blades of the fan, so that the latter will notinterfere with the light of the lamps, the said lamp-holder being alsopreferably of such construction that it may readily be attached to orremoved from the fan, and the electrical connections of the lamps arepreferably such that they are connected with the said lamp-holder so asto be attached to or removed from the fan with said holder, said lampsbeing, by proper conductf ing-wires, in electrical connection with acontact device carried by said lamp-holder and the lower part of the fanbeing provided with a contact device to be engaged by the contact on thelamp-holder, so that as thelamp-holder is secured in place propercircuits to and from the lamps may be established by proper con tacts onthe lamp-holder and fan, and the lamp-holder and its lamps may beremoved without disarranging the conductors or circuits within thelamp-holder. The lamps of the electrolier may, however, be arrangedabove the fan if so placed that a part or all of them will be outside ofthe fan-blades or if they be employed with a rapidly-running or diskfan.

In the accompanying' drawings, Figure l is a sectional elevation oi myimproved electric fan and electrolier, and Fig. 2 is a section on alarger scale than Fig. l to more clearly illustrate the construction bywhich the lampholder or support is attached to the fan and by whichsuitable electrical connections between the latter and the lamps areestablished. Fig. 3 illustrates a modiiied form of my invention. Fig. 4is a sectional View of the fan-motor and the electrolier.

A denotes a portion of the rod or tube which in practice may besuspended from a ceiling or other elevated point of attachment. To thelower end of the said rod or tube is secured a suitable support orbracket B, to which is attached the held-magnet C of an electric fan.

D is a rotating armaturejournaled on a tube b, attached at its upper endto the bracket B, said armature 'carrying the `fan wings or blades E.

B is an oil-cup, into which the lower end of the journal of the armature D extends, said oil-cup being screwed onto the tube b and havingoutwardly-extendin g arms which support the brushes b of the fan-motor,and to the depending lower part of said oil-cup is screwed a metalsleeve F, held in a fixed position by a setscrew f or other suitablesecuring device. The exterior of the sleeve F is provided with lugs f',to which are attached, by rivets f2, a disk or plate G of vulcanizedfiber or other insulating material.

F is a second sleeve attached by rivets f3 to the insulating plate ordisk G, said rivets passing through peripheral lugs fL on said sleeve.

The sleeves F and F are both alike, or essentially so, and each ispreferably provided with three peripheral lugs, by which and the rivetsf2f3 it is connected with the plate or disk G, so that the latterandthesaid sleeves are all rigidly connected together, but with the twosleeves insulated from each other, these connecting parts being rigidlyattached to the bottom of the oil-cup BC H is a sleeve eXteriorlyscrew-threaded to fit the threaded interior of the sleeve E', into whichit is screwed, the said sleeve H having peripheral lugs h for theattachment to said sleeve of the insulating plate or disk i by means ofrivets 71,.

J is a bracket attached by means of screws j to the insulating plate ordisk l, the said bracket having a series of upwardly-extend ing arms j.i

K is a casing or basket, preferably formed of sheet Inetal and servingas a holderorsupport -for the incandescent lamps M. K is also asheet-metal casing or basket, provided at IOO its upper part with anannular ledge 7s, on which the lower end oi' the casing or basket Krests. This smaller easing K has an opening in its bottom, so that itmay be placed in position, as shown, over the screw-threaded sleeve/'2,'formed at the bottom of the bracket J, and thus when the lowermost lampM is screwed onto the said threadedI sleeve the socket of said lamp willser-ve as a nut to secure the casing l in place, or the said casings Kand K may be attached together and tothe arms] by solder or otherwise.

The conductors a and a to carry the electric current to and from thelamps are preferably passed down through the tube b, one of saidconductors being attached tothe contactblock N, which is fixed to theinsulating plate or disk G, while the other of said conductors isattached to one of the rivets f3 which secure the sleeve F to the saidinsulating-disk G. The current entering by the conductora can thus passthrough said rivet fs to the sleeve F, and from the latter to the sleeveII, and from said sleeve through the conductors m to the lamps.

Attached to the insulating plate or disk I is a metal contact-block O,which when the sleeve II is screwed into the sleeve F comes against themetallic contact-block N, rigid with the sleeves F and F. Thus thecurrent passing from the lamps through the conductors a and thecontact-block O passes to the contact-block N and thence outward throughthe conductor u. The conductors in extend from the sleeve Il to thelamps, while the con ductors n extend 'from the lamps to thecontact-block O.

It will thus be seen that the lamp-holder, consisting ot the sleeve Il,the bracket J, and the casings K and K', may, with all of theirelectrical connections, including the conductors m and n, be attached toor detached from the depending part ot the oil-cup B merely by screwingthe sleeve II into the sleeve F.

By attaching this electrolier or incandescent-lamp holder to an electricfan, below the fan wings or blades oi' the latter, I am enabled toprovide an electrolier and electric fan el such construction that thefan-blades will not interfere with the light from the lamps.

It will also be apparent that the electrolier forms an ornamental iinishfor the fan and incloses the rougher parts of the fan-motor, while atthe same time the construction ci the parts is such that the electroliermay be readily secured in place or easily removed from the fan whendesired. I do not, however, wish to be understood as limiting myinvention to an arrangement of the lamps below the fan-blades, as theymay be placed above the same, as shown in Fig. 3, if so arranged as tobe partly or wholly outside of the fan-blades, so that the latter willnot interfere with the light, or if theybe employed with arapidly-running or disk fan, which would interfere but little with thelight.

Having thus described my invention, I claim and desire to secure byLetters Iatentl. The combination with an electric fan, and a centralsupport for said ian and its motor, of an electrolier also sustained bysaid central support and comprising a plurality or series ot' electriclamps which are carried by a holder detachably connected with saidcentral support so that the lamps carried thereby may be removed fromthe fan, collectively, by detaching said holder.

2. The combination with an electric fan, the oil-cup or lower part ofwhich is provided with a suitable contact, of an electrolier orlamp-holder removably connected with said part or oil-cup and providedwith a contact to engage the first-named contact when said lamp-holderis secured in place, and suitable electric conductors between theholder-contact and the lamps; whereby said lamp-holder may be removedfrom the fan without disturbing said conductors.

The combination with an insulated sleeve, as F, connected with the lowerportion of a part of au electric fan, ot" a second sleeve, as I'I, indirect electrical connection with the said insulated sleeve, alamp-supporting bracket insulatingly attached to the said second sleeve,and a lamp-holder carrying a series of ii'lcandeseent lamps andsustained in place by the said lamp-supporting bracket.

4f. rlhe combination with the oil-cup ll' oi an electric fan, of thesleeve F attached to the lower portion ot the said oil-cup, aninsulating` plate or disk G attached to the said sleeve F, a secondsleeve F attached to the said insulating plate or disk, the sleeve IIsecured to the said sleeve F', the insulating plate or disk I attachedto said sleeve Il, the tan-supporting bracket .l attached to the saidinsulating plate or disk I, the contact-blocks carried by the saidplates or disks G and I, conductors to and from the lamps and one of thesaid contact-blocks and the sleeve II, to form circuits within thelamp-holder.

5. The combination with a central shaft, ot an electric motor supportedthereby and having a portion which is revoluble thereon and whichcarries fan-blades, and an electrolier rigidly supported by said shaftand comprising a plurality or series of electric lamps.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

EDWIN lI. ISICNNE'II', In. lVitnesses:

Wn. C. SEX'roN, WALTER J. Pn'r'rrr.

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